Hossein Zakeri, Listening
Upper-Intermediate level
Description
Main Aims
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To provide gist, specific information and detailed listening practice using a text about love
Subsidiary Aims
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To provide clarification of expressions of love in the context of first love
Procedure (45-55 minutes)
-Teacher will start with a personal anecdote about his/her love life -Then 3 questions (slide 1) will appear on the OHP and students will be asked to ask and answer the questions in pairs.
-In this stage, students are going to get HO1 which has the first sentences of each verse of the song -They will be asked to guess what the verse is going to be about in pairs -The song is going to be played and they will get the rest of the verse to stick on their papers
Students will play a game with 5 words/expressions extracted from the song -They will be divided into 2 groups -The words will be stuck on the board -each group will get the definitions and one by one they will come
-At this stage, they have the whole song and now they will be asked to listen again and underline all the verbs that are used to express sth in the future -Then in pairs, they will check their answers -The teacher will under indicate the verbs using slide 3 -A quick clarification of the future indicating verbs will end this stage
-they will listen to the song with the lyrics -Then they will get into pairs and they will try to write a song like this or change this song as they like for their own loved ones